M65, NGC 3623
noirlab_noao-m65 June 30th, 2020
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
M65 is a spiral galaxy of type Sa in the constellation Leo. At a distance of about 35 million light-years, M65 apparently forms a triplet with its neighbors M66 and NGC3628, as seen in this lower resolution but wider field image. This image was taken with the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory on the night of December 19th 2002 UT. Image size 7.9x11.9 arc minutes.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m65/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-m65
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- M65, NGC 3623
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:33:51
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m65/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 169.6898488, 13.13368296
- Reference Dimension
- 1400.0, 2100.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1194.238785, 1550.889801
- Scale
- -8.3e-05, 8.26e-05
- Rotation
- -0.2173604149
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-m65
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-m65.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:27.852322
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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